My wife runs a small dental practice and we have a Dell Server running Windows 2008 Server R2. For disaster recovery we purchased 2 identical servers, one which we keep at home in case something happens to the one in the office. My IT guy when we set it up - did a Bare Metal Restore on the Home server to copy the exact configuration of the office server. I would periodically like to update or clone the server at home to the exact configuration in the office. What is my best option to do this?
Should I take a full server backup on a portable drive and do a Bare Metal Restore periodically on the server at Home or do I need to just copy the system state onto the server at home. The server at home has windows 2008R2 already setup.
I don't have a lot of computer experience, but can do basic backups and restore and don't want to pay my IT guy every time I have to do something like this.
Any help in simple laymans terms would be greatly appreciated
